Looking Back to see Ahead (Paper) - Softcover

Perlman

9780226660387: Looking Back to see Ahead (Paper)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226660389 ISBN 13: 9780226660387

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1989

In over sixty years of involvement in social work--as practitioner, supervisor, teacher, consultant, and author--Helen Harris Perlman has become all but a legend. She has served on national policy committees, lectured around the world, and participated in pioneering social work programs and research. Her wide-ranging experiences enrich her vision of the social work profession: typically she is able to see the forest and the trees. Grounded in psychodynamic and social theory, lucid, forthright, and compassionate, her writings serve to inspire and guide experienced practitioners, teachers, and present-day students. Looking Back to See Ahead offers pieces chosen for their centrality to Perlman's thinking on some of the major problems of social work practice and education. To each essay she has added her current, informal comments. Refreshingly original is the section "After Hours," in which she captures, in sketches and verse, the humor and heartache that are inevitable in any profession that deals with hurt and troubled people.

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From the Back Cover:

If looking back represents a reluctance to leave the known for the unknown, if it expresses a fear of present prospects, if it is a temptation to escape the here-and-now reality and thus becomes a deterrent to looking ahead with courage, it is to be deplored. If, however, it is a way of gaining perspective, a means by which we may recognize and thus avoid earlier errors of judgment and action, or if, in reverse, it is a means by which to identify and preserve what is still to be developed further, if, in short, we look to the past as way of seeing more clearly and penetratingly its meanings and uses for our immediate present and near-future, then it may serve as well.

About the Author:

Helen Harris Perlman is the Samuel Deutsch Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago. Her many published works include Social Casework: A Problem-Solving Process; Persona: Social Role and Personality; and Relationship: The Heart of Helping People; and, as editor, Helping: Charlotte Towle on Social Work and Social Casework.

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